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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: International Protection (13 Feb 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 470. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the process by which a person who is not currently in Ireland and is in need of international protection would apply for asylum in Ireland; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6521/24]

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: This section relates to the continuation in force of pre-commencement development plans, which are development plans that are in existence before the new Bill commences, section 66(3) allows the Minister, by order, to reduce or extend the length of that pre-commencement development plan. Our concern is that there would be too much power in the hands of the Minister to make decisions about...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: This could be procedural. Does he not have to be here to move it?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What Deputy Ó Broin is saying suggests the officials are having as much difficulty dealing with the timeframe allocated to the Bill as we are. Otherwise they would have come here with advice that the amendment is okay and it can be let through. Why this is not the case is crazy. What the Minister of State is saying is that the Government has not really had enough time to consider it....

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is just a point.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I get Deputy O'Callaghan's issue. The Government's amendment further elaborates what the maritime area is to try to clearly define it. However, when it comes to unauthorised developments, the definition is narrowed down. Would it help the clarity of the Bill to follow a reference to the site - I get the point about it being specific - by qualifying its definition through saying whether it...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Is that in relation to section 33 of this Bill?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Sorry?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: All right. So it is putting up a field hospital sort of thing.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Is it fleshed out even more, what a State authority development emergency might be?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I can see the logic of putting up a tent for a field hospital. Is there not potential to abuse such a definition?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: A state emergency development.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What is the directive?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Film Industry (8 Feb 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 4. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment what measures he is considering to ensure that workers in the film industry who are subject to multiple successive fixed-term contracts, have their rights under fixed-term workers legislation fully vindicated, and have their service to the industry properly recognised; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5798/24]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Film Industry (8 Feb 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: A little later this morning, the long campaigned for and long awaited film industry stakeholders forum will take place, convened by the Minister of State's colleague in the Department of arts. I presume the Minister of State's officials will be there. One of the key issues at stake is the use of successive multiple fixed-term contracts where workers never acquire any kind of security or...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Film Industry (8 Feb 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have with me the declaration, and it is signed. I campaigned on behalf of film workers to get this declaration. When we bring the film producers that the Government gives the film credit to into our committee and I ask them simply how many workers who have worked on film productions have acquired contracts of indefinite duration, the answer is “Zero”. They go on to explain...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Film Industry (8 Feb 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister of State has to look at this. The Acts are not working. The producers told us that no one had ever got a contract of indefinite duration and never would. It is not acceptable that people can work in an industry for 25, 30 or 35 years and never get a contract of indefinite duration. It means that the clock goes back to zero with every single film. It is as if they had never...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Employment Rights (8 Feb 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 15. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment what his role is in ensuring full compliance with employment legislation and workers right in the film TV arts and audio visual sectors; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5801/24]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Low Pay (8 Feb 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 34. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment given the new information from the ESRI on low pay work, if he will consider the abolishment of sub-minimum wage rates; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5799/24]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: National Minimum Wage (8 Feb 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 66. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment given that an increasing number of employers are in breach of national minimum wage laws, but the number of prosecutions is low, how is he going to enforce minimum wage law compliance and if there will be additional penalties to employers for minimum wage law breaches; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5797/24]